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Fracking company and Lancashire police collaborate to surveil protesters

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Environmental campaigners ask Nicola Sturgeon to protect the right to protest

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New York Police Department expands surveillance post-9/11

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Myanmar military conducts mobile phone stops and searches

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South Africa threatens protesters with 2020 cyber protection legislation

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South African government asks social media to trace and remove dissent

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New social media regulations in Cuba chill dissent

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Cuba restricts access to social media and messaging during protests

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Israel shifts to digital surveillance of Palestinians

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Free to Protest (UK edition)

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Can we be free to protest in an age of high tech police surveillance of protests?

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Peru social networks crucial in disseminating rights information

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Myanmar suspends rights protections and rolls out "Safe City" camera surveillance system

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Myanmar budgets show Western supplies of surveillance technology

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Myanmar protesters find alternative paths in internet shutdown

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Belarus installs facial recognition surveillance system

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Belarus internet shutdown forces reliance on Telegram and VPNs

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EU foreign service buys Belarus 15 suv drones

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Belarus protests draw unprecedented crackdown

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Hong Kong protests become digital arms race against authorities

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Hong Kong protesters cut down and study the city's smart lampposts

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Hong Kong authorities have access to AI facial recognition software

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Facial recognition increases risk for Hong Kong street protesters

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Hong Kong protesters and police engage in digital arms race

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UK police use unmanned drones to surveil political protests

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UK tribunal rules that police may refuse to say whether they use Stingrays

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Peru street protests coordinated on social media by hundreds of decentralized organisations

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US Department of Homeland Security deployed aerial surveillance during BLM protests

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San Francisco police department use private camera network to surveil BLM protests

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Russian police track protesters and leak data to black market